1936 summer olympics

The 1936 summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany. Hitler became a supporter of the Olympics after a man named Joseph Goebbels told him that he could use the Olympics as propaganda. Hitler wanted to create a "New Germany" when he was in power (Bachrach 16). Hitler used two weeks in the Olympics to get more people on board to kill the Jews and his plan did accelerate and actually worked. Hitler was the center of the Nazi party. Many hoped that Hitler would help Germany, but he did the opposite. People that were against the Nazis would be taken away and put in concentration camps. The United States questioned about supporting the Olympics in Germany. There was a slight pause in the anti-Jewish campaign (The Nazi Olympics).

German Jews were not allowed to participate and their opportunities were very limited. Important features for German athletes were blonde hair and blue eyes
(The Nazi Olympics).Nazi leaders were very rude to African Americans and Hitler would not shake any African American hands (Bachrach 95-96). Jesse "fastest human being" Owens participated in the Olympics and won many gold medals (Bachrach 92).

The last of 3,000 runners who carried the Olympic torch from Olympia, Greece, arrives in the Lustgarten in Berlin to light the Olympic Flame and start the 11th Summer Olympic Games.

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Works Cited
"The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 | August 1936." The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 | August 1936. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 06 Sept. 20
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Bachrach, Susan D. The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936. Boston: Little, Brown, and, 2000. Print.